Captive Nations Week

Captive Nations Week

Captive Nations Week, a week aimed at raising public awareness of the oppression of nations under the control of Communist and other non-democratic governments, began in 1953 and was declared by a Congressional resolution and signed into law ("Public Law 86-90") by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959. President Eisenhower, and every successive U.S. President up to the current administration of President George W. Bush, has declared the third week of July to be Captive Nations Week.

Famed American foreign policy expert George Kennan, serving at the time as ambassador to what was then Yugoslavia, sought unsuccessfully to dissuade President John F. Kennedy from proclaiming the week on the ground that the United States had no reason to make the resolution, which in effect called for the overthrow of all the governments of Eastern Europe, a part of public policy.

References

* [http://www.socialdesign.ru/main/address-eng.html Address of the Russian intellectuals to the Congress of the United States of America] - Social Design Corporation. July 14, 2008.
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050205051751/http://russian-americans.org/CRA_Art_Captive.htm Fighting the 'Captive Nations Week Resolution' (Archived)] - Congress of Russian Americans, Inc. 1999.
* [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/07/20080718-3.html Captive Nations Week, 2008] White House. 2008.
* Tim Weiner and Barbara Crossette. "George F. Kennan Dies at 101; Leading Strategist of Cold War". "New York Times". March 18, 2005.
* "George F. Kennan: Cold War Iconoclast". Walter Hixson, 1988.


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